viii Co)ife?its of Volume V. 



Description of an Apparently New PooccFtes from Oregon. By 



G S. Miller, Jr 404 



Nesting of the Prairie Warbler {Dendyoi'ca discolor) in the Vi- 



cixiTY of Washington, D. C. Bv Elliott Baird Cones . . 405 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Turner's Report of his Ornithological Observations in Alaska, 409; 

 Sharpe's Catalogue of the Family Fringillidse. 410; Shufeldt on 

 the Osteology of the IctericUe and Corvidoe, 413 ; Shufeldt on the 

 Skeleton of the Carolina Rail, 414: Vernacular Ornithology, 414; 

 Allen on the Emargination of the Primaries, 418; Birds of Mor- 

 ris County, New Jersey, 421 ; Publications Received, 422. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Note on the Correct Name of Symphe^nia semipalmata tnortiata 

 Brewst., 423; A Second Maine and (Fourth New England) Speci- 

 men of Swainson's Hawk (Z?«/eo stvaiitsoni), 424; Nesting of 

 the Black Swift, 424; Xantus's Becard {Platypsaris albivetttris) 

 in the Huachuca Mountains, Southern Arizona, 425: Cocco- 

 thraustes vespertina in Nebraska, 425; Tameness of the Pine Sis- 

 kin, 426; Further Notes on Seaside Sparrows, 426; A Second In- 

 stance of the Breeding of the White-throated Sparrow in Eastern 

 Massachusetts, 426; A Third Specimen of Lawrence's Warbler, 

 427; '^o\.Q% on Helminth op hila leucobroncJiialis, /\2'] \ Bachman's 

 Warbler HelminfhopJiila bachmaiii at Key West, Florida, in July 

 and August, 428 ; Dendroica corotiata at Key West in Summer, 430 ; 

 Breeding of the Cerulean Warbler {Dendroica ccerulea) in Niagara 

 County, New York, 430; Dendroica ccprnlea at Seymour, Con- 

 necticut. 431; An Albino Blackpoll Warbler, 432; Cistothorus 

 palnstris mariancB on the Coast of Georgia. 432 ; Capture of the 

 Brown-headed Nuthatch near Elmira, New York, 432; Impeded 

 Migration and Destruction of Birds at Chicago, 432: Reason or 

 Instinct.'. 434; Notes on the Nomenclature of the Muscles of Vola- 

 tion in Birds' Wings, 435. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



The Osteology of Habia melanocepkala with Comparative Notes upon 

 the Skeletons of certain other Conirostral Birds and of Tanagers, 

 438; How far West has Afias obscura: been found.'', 444. 



NOTES AND NEWS- 



Obituary, — Charles Wickliffe Beckham, 445; Philip Henry Gosse, 

 446; The Sixth Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union, 

 447; The Henshaw Collection, 447; Report of the Division of 

 Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy, 447; Dr. Menzbier's 

 'Ornithologie du Turkestan,' 447; Audubon Monument, 448; 

 Papers awaiting Publication in 'The Auk', 448. 



SUPPLEMENT. 



Descriptions of New Species and Subspecies of Birds from 



THE Neotropical Region. By Hans von Berlepsch . . . 449 



Supplementary Remarks on the Genus Psittacula Brisson. By 



Robert Ridg-way .......... 460 



Index 463 



Errata 484 



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